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As you might have been noticed if you follow me on facebook, a new photo banner appeared !!!

I'm not a photo person and even less a selfie person :)

I'm more the kind that annoy my friends when they try to take a picture of me because I always try to avoid it (Althought I might have made some progress in this area).

I don't know why, maybe because I've never been used to be taken in picture and also I never recognize myself in any picture...

Anyway, the result is that I only have a few souvenirs shots of myself in my all life (while I have a big board of my friends pictures at home).

In this blog if you take a look you could find maybe 2 or 3 photos maximum. I posted some bad shots of myself to announce the winners of a giveaway a few years ago and a video when I participated to Rue Stick at Puteaux in 2011 and that's it !

So I really needed to change that. Especially because I would really want to show the human side of my illustrations work.

I think my desire of pictures began last summer when I really dive into instagram (yes I know I was so late but as I told you I'm not a photo person ^^). I used to have an account since 2012 but at the beginning I have to admit it was just another social network where I could share my illustrations and didn't have the time to really go further. And then I began to discover a new range of bloggers, photographs and artists that I couldn't come a cross on any other social networks and then I fell in love with instagram which is now my favorite network ever !

So as we used to follow each other since a few months, I shyly asked the lovely Allée des Roses if she would agree to make some photos of me to use as avatar on my social networks, blogs, websites. Of course I had absolutly no idea how this kind of things worked but she was so kind and explained me the all process with so much enthusiasm !

After a few chats by emails, we were both so excited about this collaboration, we even decided to go further and take some pictures of my studio and decoration. I think the place where you use to work influent particularly the way you work.

So she came at home with Yacin and it was so much fun. These two are really make a good team. The first make you comfortable with her words and laughs while the second were taking photos of you while you even don't realize it which is the perfect way to get natural shots !

I'm so happy with the result and even think to collaborate again with them for some projects to come.

What do you think of these pictures ? Please let me know I'd be glad to know your opinion about this serie.

And don't forget to follow the work of those great photographs on instagram :

Let’s talk about creating an illustration from scratch. How does that process look, for you? How do you start, what steps do you follow?

When I work for a client, most of the time it’s simple: I get a brief that I need to stick to (subject, size, colors and references of illustrations in my portfolio for the colorisation). But for a personal illustration I use to think a lot (maybe too much) before starting a new piece: Which size, composition, colors, theme, atmosphere, technique etc…

Then I start looking for inspiration on the internet (Pinterest is a great source for it). For me this process can last several hours until I have a click. Then I actually start building my illustration by mixing photos together. The most difficult part is to stick to what I decided at the beginning! Then the ‘production’ step begins: Drawing most of the time with a pencil or a pigment liner. After that I scan my drawing and start colorize it digitally in Photoshop (you can see a step by step video here).

What kind of projects did you use to work on, in the beginning?

In the beginning I mostly worked for private portrait commissions and French magazines. Some of them weren’t very famous so I didn’t get a lot of money from these jobs at the beginning.

You came to a point where you get to create art for brands like Nina Ricci, Laduree or Rochas and magazines like Elle, Marie-Claire and Cosmopolitan. How did you get here? How did you first start these collaborations?

The most complicated part in this job is to get the contacts. Especially in Advertising. For this part I think an agent is very helpful. My agent spends a lot of time doing prospection in agencies which is something I wouldn’t have the time for. Some of the Advertising jobs I get come from my agent. Other clients discover my work online and contact me or my agent directly....

New colorful wallpapers for you this month !
It's been a long time I wanted to create some patterns mixing delicate and colorful/fluo graphisms.
I hope you like it ! :)

The roses are drawing by hand with a simple pencil then digitally enhanced with some graphic
patterns to create some freshs designs for this summer !
If you like them, those patterns are also available on my Nuvango page as cases&skins, pillows and greetings cards !
Enjoy :)